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Advancing Innovation in
Teaching and Learning Technology
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November 12, 2009
John Tucker Hall |
Conference Program
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November 12 |
| 8:30 |
Conference Check-In and Continental Breakfast – TUCKER HALL
Conference Moderator - Dr. Thomas O’Kuma, Division Chair Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences/FT Faculty - Physics
Welcome - Dr. Michael Murphy, President of Lee College
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| 9:15 |
GENERAL SESSION – KEYNOTE ADDRESS – TUCKER HALL
Serious Games: Let the Games Begin!
Applying Game Technology for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Programs
Frank Hughes, Tietronix Software, Inc.
Frank Hughes, retired NASA Chief of Space Flight Training, joined Tietronix Software, Incorporated, as Vice-president of Education and Training Products. In this capacity, Mr. Hughes and his technical team are producing Web-based education using virtual reality environments to teach all of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) areas. Tietronix also produces training on subjects such as safety and security, business processes, and business dynamics. His responsibilities include identifying and developing new opportunities in technology-based training applications for the aerospace, energy, medical, and engineering and education industries. |
| 10:45 |
Refreshment Break |
| 11:00 |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 11001: Bldg/Room-Tucker Hall - The Impact of the Instructor within Online Learning Environments: Tools and Skills to Support the Developing Communities of Learners - Dr. Caroline Crawford (Associate Professor-Instructional Technology) and Dr. Richard A. Smith (Clinical Associate Professor-Instructor Technology) University of Houston Clear Lake - The instructor’s impact upon the success of the online learning environment is obvious, but exactly how does the instructor positively impact and guide the learning environment, towards successfully developing a community of learners? The instructor understanding and skills related to mentorship, tasks, tools and underlying philosophical belief systems support the learners. These tools and skills will be directly addressed within this presentation, as based upon over 20 combined years of research and experience.
Session 11002 – Bldg/Room-Bayer Conference Center - Blackboard Learning System CE & Vista License administrators take note - attend this session to get an overview of the product architecture and new functionality for Blackboard Learn, Release 9 - James Werner, Regional Sales Manager - Blackboard, Inc. An online learning environment should open doors for learners, educators and administrators. Blackboard Learn™, Release 9 was built for you with these goals in mind. You'll enable anytime, anywhere student engagement, empower teachers with the tools they need to succeed and deliver both through an intuitive Web 2.0 interface built on an open and flexible platform This session, dedicated to Vista and CE clients, will take you through the process for upgrading to Release 9. You will learn about the enhancements in Release 9, walk through the pedagogical and technical upgrade checklist, understand the people and resources available to you to support the upgrade, and examples of institutions that are already running Blackboard Learn, Release 9.
Session 11003 – Bldg/Room-ATC 324 - Talk to Students WHEN they are Listening: The Benefits of Podcasting - Tracie Hervey (Business Technology Instructor) and Paula Lee (WebCT Instructional Technology Specialist) -- Lee College Given the various and varied options available to instructors in an online (and even hybrid/web-enhanced) course environment, podcasting is one of the strongest methods of relaying information to the students. Using software available on the internet instructors can record information that will enhance communication with students and facilitate learning. Podcasting can be used for test reviews, orientation information, as well as idea exchanges. Come hear how one instructor is using podcasts in her Business Technology classes to provide students information in a format that meets the needs of auditory learners. |
| 12:00 |
Luncheon – Student Center Cyber Café/Game Room –Door Prizes
Must be present to win! |
| 1:15 |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session 11501 – Bldg/Room: ATC-324 - Demystifying Online Classes: Intended Audience: A Session for Librarians that Encounter Questions about Online Classes- Paula Lee (WebCT Administrator/Instructional Technology Specialist) and Jane Brody (EOC Project Director) –Lee College -With more and more high school and college students using online classes, librarians are called upon even more to know how the online classes work. This session is meant to help demystify online classes, mainly WebCT, for librarians. It will give a brief overview of how WebCT handles and then be open for a Q&A session.
Session 11502 – Bldg/Room: Bayer Conference Center - Get Your Game On in Instruction- Rachel Vacek (Web Services Coordinator) and Robin Dasler (Science and Mathematics Librarian) - University of Houston - Author Zora Neale Hurston said that "Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”The same could be said about video games, where a gamer explores new and unfamiliar areas, asks questions along the way, consults with outside resources to help understand the objective, learns new things, gains experience, and collaborates to achieve the prize at the end. In this presentation, Robin and Rachel will discuss how gaming strategies can be applied to both in-classroom and online library instruction, and how these strategies can help retain students' attention as well as enhance their learning experience. They will discuss how the strategies used within the research process are remarkably similar to the strategies of gamers. The presenters will also highlight several academic libraries successfully incorporating games and gaming concepts into instruction through inexpensive or free open-source technologies. Should you choose to attend this session, you will gain +10 to your toolbox of gaming resources, +15 to your ability to connect with students, +10 to your gaming strategies knowledge, and +5 to your creativity.
Session 11503 – Bldg/Room: Tucker Hall - No-Cost Online Apps that will Make your Day! Dr. Richard A. Smith (Clinical HVH Associate Professor-Instructional Technology) and Dr. Caroline Crawford (Associate Professor-Instructional Technology) -- University of Houston Clear Lake - 'From oldies but goodies to Web 2.0, this presentation is designed to familiarize attendees with some of the best, most useful no-cost software available.' This presentation will give the audience an overview of some of the most useful, no-cost Web;resources available. The presentation will provide details about and describe how Jing, Kompozer, DimDim, NineHub, GoogleSites, Microsoft Office Live, QuizStar, RubiStar, Cuil, Poll Everywhere, Zamzar and; Clusty Cloud Creator can be used in the classroom to facilitate instruction, interaction with parents, and communication with students in other locations. Attendees at this presentation will learn how to quickly and easily create instructional videos consisting of the activity on their desktop, make web-based presentations to up to 20 people each in a separate location, hold 3 way video conferences, use Moodle at no cost for a server, create a web page and insert HTML without knowing HTML, create rubrics, use a new search engine that simplifies the writing of research papers, change PDFs to Word documents, learn how to make Word clouds, and become producers of live video programming. One caveat, since new resources appear on the Web daily, we may substitute some recent and more relevant web resources for some of those presently proposed. |
| 2:15 |
Refreshment Break |
| 2:30 |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Session 23001 – Bldg/Room: ATC-324 - Social Media in Education: New Rules for New ToolsShari Mauthner (Instructional Designer) and Madhuri Kumar (Program Director/Instructional Designer) - University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business - Social media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate and network. Tapping into the learning preferences of the NetGen students, educators are increasingly adopting new social media for instruction. This is increasingly blurring and blending the boundaries between traditional learning methods and those that use new social medial tools such as blogs, wikis, and personalized student profiles. While there is tremendous buzz about the potential strength of leveraging these whizz-bang tools, there are critical questions that educators must consider: Does Social Media come with a new set of ground rules for Educators and Students? What are the new rules, boundaries, and limitations for the use of social media in the classroom? Students’ online profiles can be viewed by anyone, including coaches, employers, and college admissions officers. Are they comfortable with what their profiles say about them? Are the Gen Yers showing due responsibility when using Social Media? Current court cases involving litigation between institutions and both their students and faculty indicate otherwise. How do we as educators and institutions address the challenge of providing our GenY students with active engagement using Social Media tools while also affording them a safe and ethical learning environment? While new tools are cool, this presentation will probe the ‘gotchas’ of using these new media in the classroom. The discussion will explore how academic institutions can educate students and faculty alike about the “new rules for the new tools”. After presenting this crucial information on social media, the session presenters will open the floor to discussion regarding the ethical and moral implications of social media to education and our responsibility to educate students about e-professionalism.
Session 23002 – Bldg/Room: Tucker Hall - The Impact of the Learner within Online Learning Environments: Supporting the Learner’s Understanding of Online Learning Experiences- Dr. Caroline Crawford (Associate Professor-Instructional Technology) and Dr. Richard A. Smith (Clinical Associate Professor-Instructor Technology) --University of Houston Clear Lake - The learner’s obvious impact upon the academic and communicative successes within the online learning environment directly addresses the emphasis upon supportive tools and guiding mentorship within the online learning environment. How might the online learning environment positively impact the learners, and how might the learning environment’s instructional design and development emphasize the necessary support systems for the learners? These tools and supports will be directly addressed within this presentation, as based upon over 20 combined years of research and experience.
Session 23003 – Bldg/Room: Bayer Conference Center - Double Dipping: Online Course Features/Tools to Save Time & Support Learning Community: Dr. Kathryn Ley (Associate Professor-Instructional Technology) University of Houston Clear Lake This session will enable participants to minimize or eliminate common online challenges that demand valuable student and instructor time; the time commitment online teaching requires may be the “number one challenge” most online faculty face could be (Vaughan, 2007, p. 87- 88). Based upon theory and research in cognitive load (Chang & Ley, 2006) and self-regulation (Young & Ley, 2004), the content and activities have been formatively evaluated with community college and university faculty comments and reactions over several years. The presenter will describe how online course policies and procedures may inadvertently intensify the challenges. Spend a few minutes now with an experienced online instructor who has given national and international workshops to online faculty and support staff. Participants in this session will be able to identify email, telephone, and office hour policies and discussion board configurations and procedures that promote effective and efficient online communications and support distributed learning communities. The presentation will identify distributed learning tools and features that address the following common online instructor challenges:
- Different online learners in the same online class email instructor with the same questions
- Too many online learners flood instructor with questions already answered, somewhere in course materials, often very obviously in the syllabus.
- Online learners can’t find information that instructor posted about specific assignments.
- Online learners send emails asking questions that have already been answered in online materials or messages.
- Online learners ask about an issue and then, after you reply, ask you again about the same issue.
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| 3:30 |
Teaching and Learning Resource Center and Student Success Center Tour (TLRC) - ATC 345 and Moler Hall Bell Suite - Anne Dickens, Title V Program Coordinator |
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